Top 6 Identity and Access Management Solutions Q1 2017

IT Central Station’s crowdsourced user review platform helps technology decision makers around the world to better connect with peers and other independent experts who provide advice without vendor bias.

Our users have ranked the top identity and access management (IAM) solutions according to their valuable features, and have also discussed where they see room for improvement.

#1 Oracle Identity Manager

Oracle Identity Manager is ranked by our users as the number one tool of Q1 2017, but what do users really think of the solution?

User-Level Management

“The user-level management has improved when you have this solution in place”, describes a DBA Manager/Principal Database Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees.

He continues to explain that “It's very difficult for us to manage the user access at the corporate level. It is a 24/7 job and we are global with multiple locations. We have user groups who manage all user access on the global level. That is easier to do with Oracle Identity Management in place.”

#2 CyberArk Privileged Account Security

Password Management

A Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees notes that CyberArk Privileged Account Security grants their organization the “ability to manage passwords for highly privileged, service accounts, which are not tied to a person.”

Product Performance

“When the number of privileged accounts increases, i.e., exceeds 2000, then the performance of the system reduces. The login slows down drastically and also the connection to the target system slows down. This is my observation and thus, the server sizing needs to be increased.”

#4 SailPoint IdentityIQ

Account Provisioning

A Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company values SailPoint IdentityIQ’s “provisioning in multiple environments, certification, and provision auditing”, which, as he explains, allows for “automated accounts provisioning during the on-boarding process.”

Troubleshooting Capabilities

In the future, this user hopes to be able to see “additional details during account aggregation failures to help quick troubleshooting.”

#5 IBM Tivoli Access Manager

IT Central Station users rank IBM Tivoli Access Manager as the number five Identity and Access Management solution of Q1 2017.

Vault Feature

“I don't really think the Vault is much use to me. It is included in my package that I pay for - but I never use it. I find services like Dropbox much more useful as it has the automatic sync. I think Keeper is most useful for its primary function - password management - which it does excellently and this shouldn't take away from that.”

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